M&A and Due Diligence

Lotti e Araújo Sociedade Law Firm provides legal advice with extensive experience in the operations of mergers, acquisitions, and restructuring of companies, whether publicly or privately held.

Our team has the methodology, experience, and professionalism to perform due diligence processes, in a way that demonstrates to the clients the real image of the business they intend to do, to avoid being surprised after concluding the negotiation with several unforeseen liabilities and contingencies.

A due diligence process encompasses several activities so that it has the desired result, being adapted to the type of business. After the completion of this process, our firm can assist the client throughout the negotiation of the acquisition of the target company, seeking the appropriate legal solutions to ensure the preservation of investors’ interests and minimize the risks of the intended acquisition operation, to the extent possible.

The firm can assist you in the following activities:

  • Auditing (Due Diligence) and negotiations on behalf of the interest of our clients;
  • Drafting, reviewing and negotiating investment contracts;
  • Purchase and sale of companies or assets;
  • Formation of associations, joint ventures or strategic alliances in any market segment;
  • Definition and improvement of rules and principles of corporate governance;
  • Structuring, negotiating and contracting to finance for the implementation of transactions;
  • Consulting in the preparation and coordination of the entire due diligence document process, physical or virtual;
  • Preparation of companies for M&A processes – Vendor Due Diligence;
  • Previous, limited and specific evaluation of M&A processes – Flash Due Diligence;
  • Elaboration of Data Room processes;
  • Defence of shareholder rights.